Youngmulla, your job (as a visitor) is to post a comment.
It’s obvious that you’re first, that’s why sites have sorting form newest to oldest.
This first thing is a FAIL. We already know you are…
Um… I hate to tell you that we’re likely to do whatever we like. Most of us are VERY familiar with how this works. And I’d appreciate it if you didn’t talk to me like I was a newbie.
Don’t expand the tree? Are you crazy? If I leave all the branches bent up it’ll look terrible. Plus how will we hang the ornaments? There won’t be room underneath for all the presents either. You must be one of those people who hate Christmas.
What!!! FailBloggers do not follow directions (or suggestions and certainly NOT orders)!! I am shocked Shocked I tell you!!!! And here I thought we were all just waiting around for sum tough strong guy to take control….
And then one of us will look up how to spell “bourgeois” since spelling is the key to our social confusion! *throws white gloves in silk top hat with vim and vigor, what*
And then one of us will look up how to spell “vichyssoise” since spelling is the key to Pétain and is in part like the common term used to describe the government of France from July 1940 to August 1944!
*throws puréed leeks, onions, potatoes, cream, and veggie stock into a pot traditionally served like revenge*
*places stamp on forehead*
I guess this is goodbye, then.
Your refund check is in the mail and we hope you may choose us for your robot needs again someday.
*closes self in shipment box and shuts down*
While I’m inclined to agree with you, there are some REALLY cold places. And there have been times (usually in February) when I have wished for a fur-lined coat! And yes, I was wearing sweaterS.
Yes, animals are a renewable resource. Precisely because they can be bred. Now, I’m NOT ok with “fur-farms”, but I don’t think it’s the end of the world if someone decides to wear fur.
I thought the expression was “You are what you eat,” not “you wear what you eat!” I must be wearing a lot of coffee and chocolate today if that’s the case.
Hey I know you can be enthusiastic about the Christmas season (although it’s kind of childish), but to say “Firs” makes no sense in the context of a hockey topic.
I thought Jules was a dude. He has the shiny ♂ symbol. He’s the one that speaks of balls first. Even if the added ones were large, the originals could be itty-bitty.
Sorry Jules, not trying to cast aspersions.
I don’t understand why “crazy” has gotten such a bad name. I mean, there are different kinds of crazy. There’s the, I want to rule the world and I’ll use these shiny exploding thingy’s to get my way, crazy. Then you have the, I’m bored, I think I’ll bark at people in the supermarket to entertain myself, crazy. Being in the barking mad group, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with crazy.
¡Great Scott! Me transmitte sursum, caledoni says:
Movies are never as good as the book. Never. It used to make me crazy. I’m a big reader. About a novel a day. There are movies out there that others love, but having read the book, they just make me hostile.
I look at movie adaptations as a completely separate entity from the books they came from. Different talents, different visions, different focus, different perspectives. I think an adaptation could be just as valuable as the original text, just so long as you don’t expect it to be the “same”.
For example, I thought “The Green Mile” worked absolutely beautifully as a movie, and the movie said more interesting things than King did in his story.
Red October was the first book I saw in movie form that stayed close to the book. The Bourne books are not even close to the originals except in names and a couple of details.
The books are good, but they have very little in common with the movies. I know movies are supposed to be good but I can’t get past the fact that they are so different from the books. I am cranky when it comes to veering off so drastically from a book, like the ending of Da Vinci Code.
Black Garnets, the fanged werebunny, developer of amusement park for short people. says:
I agree with Dragon, I try to separate the mediums. But sometimes things just don’t work as well when “adapted”. I’m fine if I can enjoy both separately. Like The Color Purple. Both are great in my opinion.
Adaptation theory actually addresses these problems. The directors and screenwriters really can’t win. They get criticized if they away from the original too much…and they get criticized if they are slavishly faithful to the text (no creative contribution, etc).
The fact that so many adaptations are being made just reinforces my suspicion that directors and screenwriters are masochists.
I understand the need to vary some. Aside from needing a much longer movie just to accommodate a book, you do have to give some license. But the mess they made from the Bourne books is ridiculous. There is an underlying story that is completely ignored. And sadly, people who have only watched the movies are very disappointed when they read the books and then get upset that the books aren’t like the movies. WHA?
I know Clancy has been belittled before as an author, but I’m a big fan of the Tom Clancy book series following Jack Ryan (at least I think that’s the Red October Ryannon is referring to). I don’t usually have a problem when books and movies diverge… I do have a problem when movies do something to defy common sense and physics (like in the movie The Sum of All Fears with Ben Afleck where he was running around town shortly after the city became ground zero for a nuclear explosion… and he’s dead inside a year due to radiation poisoning!)
¡Great Scott! Me transmitte sursum, caledoni says:
I think the first and worst of them, for me, was Misery. I was so angry at the movie that I couldn’t stop hissing in the theatre while I was trying to watch it.
Scotty, that happened to me with the second Lord of the Rings movie. I was sitting in the movie theater and I may have actually shouted, “FARAMIR WOULDN’T HAVE DONE THAT!!!”
Well, expounding upon the discourse of exegetical hermeneutics and pedagogy does tend to render one adroit at linguistic calisthenics. I mean, employing ekphrasis to things like synecdoche all day enervates the soul, so I come here to resuscitate my flagging humours with people who understand me.
One of the guys fighting actually was Mike Vallely, of skateboarding and beating-the-shit-out-of-people fame. ‘Twas pretty brutal to watch from 3 sections away.
Hmmm…if only there was a way to do a quick and easy search to find more information about them. I just don’t feel like going to the library right now. *sigh*
*pulls out knife for whittling*
Wheeaaeell, (pauses to spit) I went to Europe once. They had people with their own languages and hairy armpits. The colors were mostly grey and tan. Rained a lot if I recall correctly.
*shows whittled figures of Eifel Tower and Big Ben*
Niedermeyer skates over to the stands and passes in his hockey stick. The fans then proceed to fight over who gets to keep it. One guy gets poked quite hard in the neck with it.
I’ve got 2 Instigator, 1 Aggressor, 4 Holding the Stick, 5 Roughing, 2 Fighting, ahhh, heck with it Game Misconduct for all of you. Everyone’s ejected!
*checks the songbook he’s holding*
*Reads “The Big Book of Hockey Christmas Carols”*
Woops, I brought the wrong book.
Does this mean I won’t get any figgy pudding?
Well I’m not sure if this was mentioned, but what happened was Scott gave his stick to a young girl in the crowd and the fat guy in the blue tried to steal it from her. Then, all hell broke loose and they started pummeling him.
Well — not so much “named her after,” but that’s where I first heard the name & I really liked it a lot. Then they had to go and name a major hurricane after my child.
… at least not in New Orleans. She perks up every time they’re talking about the storm on television. “They just said Katrina – Hurricane Katrina! That’s me!”
Aww. You know how to make a zombie feel awkwardfeel weirdfeel something …
… smile.
If it weren’t for dumb people doing dumb things with machines they didn’t understand, I’d be here a lot more. Of course, I’d also be unemployed – which is admittedly a more natural state for the undead. But then I wouldn’t have the means to be here anymore …
Great, someone broke the blog. Big time. I’m looking at you, TM. Don’t make me break out the hoard, they’re just now beginning to forget why they were mad at me.
I like the idea that people will run across my Butter’s comment above and have no idea what it’s about, trying to make it fit the fail instead of the deleted comment. Chaos rules.
Same story, different day. Troll shows up, regulars play with it and/or give it the benefit of doubt. Troll shows true nature, gets banned, comments fly everywhere and land at the bottom of the page.
My casket has been leaking a little recently, so there’s water damage everywhere. But I found this piece of paper with signatures all over it and I can’t make out what’s on the top of the page. The only word I can make out is “troll”. Anyone have any idea what this was?
I gotta split all. I’m really looking forward to cuddle puddle tomorrow. I need it like nobody’s business.
Also, just wanted to let you guys know, I might have flipped out if I didn’t have you all here to bring a little joy. It’s been a super rough week, and you all have kept me from crying in my cubicle.
Being crazy has it’s advantages. You get to wear those neat jackets with the arms that tie around the back so you’re always giving yourself a nice tight squeeze and you get a padded room so facedesk facewalls don’t hurt so much.
Oh wait, that’s not being crazy, that’s being committed. But being crazy is kinda nice too.
I like how the camera displayed all those fans… those Grinches stealing the hockey stick intended for the little girl. Nothing like a public showing of those greedy grinches to ruin their day. And forget eBaying that stick, the seller would get eaten alive by angry bidders.
Qwaz, I like you alot, but I have to take exception, and it has nothing to do with your opinion of Hockey. (though I don’t agree with you)
First of all I’ll thank you not to let these idiots define all hockey fans. Second, all major sports have fans like this, and drunken idiots can be found just about everywhere.
I was SO FREAKING HAPPY the Phillies didn’t win the World Series AGAIN this year. It was so nice not to have the entire city screaming and on fire. The police actually greased the telephone poles this year during the playoffs so people couldn’t climb them, fall off, and die.
Personally, I’m bored with rabid MAJOR sport fans. You know what I’d love to see? Rabid, drunken golf fans. Or gymnastics fans. That would be so fun to watch. =D
My avatar’s pretty much my rendition of the furry “teehee face” avatar meme, with my fursona, Stickers the Husky dog. You’d find scores of examples of said teeheeface meme on FurAffinity, were the blasted site not going through a technical funk.
hockey fans in a fight, really? isn’t there supposed to be some element of the unusual in these things? what’s the next fail, cops beating on people of color?
The Ducks are a fail and so are their so called “fans.” I hate them. They are not real hockey fans. The Ducks and their fans are a disgrace to hockey. Bunch of bloody whiners and cheaters.
i hope they all went to jail and the stick was sold at police auction! guy in blue is a loser because it clearly was not meant for him, and the rest of ‘em are too for totally going way too far. keep the fighting on the ice!
the dude that started the fight is a professional skateboarder.
stick was tossed to his daughter and another guy below him grabbed it away.
mike vallely is his name, he has a reputation for getting into fights.
Experts have talked about this before. How many times have you read about the importance of ‘adding value’ for your audience? How many times have you read about ‘building trust’ with your readers/prospects?
Many, many times. You know it well. Every marketing guru has spoken about this topic. I’m sick of hearing it. But it STILL bears repeating.
firs?
yes, first
Youngmulla, your job (as a visitor) is to post a comment.
It’s obvious that you’re first, that’s why sites have sorting form newest to oldest.
This first thing is a FAIL. We already know you are…
I like the way you show your working in denouncing youngmulla.
I agree. A+ Vazix.
No comment rating system.
We rate them however we please.
Scale of 1-eleventy Avis?
Sometimes.
Then, you’re an eleventy times infinity!!
*Birdiesqueeze*
Got your point…
However, don’t expand this reply tree.
It’s what Firsters want…
Lets don’t take attention from more important comments
Um… I hate to tell you that we’re likely to do whatever we like. Most of us are VERY familiar with how this works. And I’d appreciate it if you didn’t talk to me like I was a newbie.
Okay. I promise not to expand the tree.
Don’t expand the tree? Are you crazy? If I leave all the branches bent up it’ll look terrible. Plus how will we hang the ornaments? There won’t be room underneath for all the presents either. You must be one of those people who hate Christmas.
This would be different than collapsing the tree, I’m guessing.
I think the tree could use some mistletoe!
*brings out a huge bunch and holds it up trying to decide where to put it…*
*sues for tree expansion rights*
*stands under expanding tree*
*waits for kiss under mistletoe*
*runs up to Zoomz, plants kiss on cheek, runs off*
Nemanau, kad čia ka nors siūlyti gera mintis, be to, didelis atsakymų medis nera trolių tikslas.
What!!! FailBloggers do not follow directions (or suggestions and certainly NOT orders)!! I am shocked
Shocked I tell you!!!!
And here I thought we were all just waiting around for sum tough strong guy to take control….
jamie… you are the tool of the proletariat bourgeious misspellers.
“Proletariat bourgeouis”?
*confusedly puts on tux and top hat while reading Karl Marx’s Das Kapital and denouncing the class system*
Thanks BG!!
*sings the Internationale while stockjobbing*
*shakes fist*
*shakes fist*
*adjusts monocle*
A good day to you, dear sir.
*builds barricades*
Let’s overthrow this rotten system, shall we?
I’m beginning to fear our system is going to rot from the inside.
And then one of us will look up how to spell “bourgeois” since spelling is the key to our social confusion! *throws white gloves in silk top hat with vim and vigor, what*
Vim and Vicar? What’s a potatoe have to do with this?
You say potatoe, I say potato.
And then one of us will look up how to spell “vichyssoise” since spelling is the key to Pétain and is in part like the common term used to describe the government of France from July 1940 to August 1944!*throws puréed leeks, onions, potatoes, cream, and veggie stock into a pot traditionally served like revenge*Lets expand everything to piss Vazix off.
* sits down *
* puts feet on hassock *
* opens bottle of qualitatswein rielsing *
* drinks to everyone’s health *
REPLY TREE NOOBS
Besides, yungmulla asked for firs, right?
*covers head*
This message should be heard by all of the Firsters.
Followed by the introduction of Fisters to the Firsters.
Oh, it’s okay, Ms B — it builds character. Plus, just think: you started a really funny — and I do mean funny — trend. Win/win!
Amen!
Im so drunk and it feels goood!
well the problem is i am no visitor so that gives me the right to be firster and fister
first
yay
Yes. Yes, you are. You can cross that off today’s to-do list.
*crosses eyes*
*sticks tongue out @ LGB*
It actually sorts from the oldest to the newest. Oldest being on top, newest being on bottom.
Ya think?
Obviously you don’t read posts before you respond.
lolwutnotwuteva…
Fur is murder!
*plays Für Elise on grand piano*
No more buttered scones for me, mater.
I had a dream last night that I bought a baby cheetah from a pet store.
Did it run?
it was a tiny baby, small cat sized, it just nuzzled me. but it was adorable!
Um…that furry thing wasn’t a cheetah.
What do you mea…. oh
How real did it feel?
♪ Real as anything you’ve seen ♫
♪ Get aliiiiiiive with the dreamer’s dream ♫
♫As real as it may seeeeeem,
It was only in my dream♫
To those of you who remember the eighties, I apologize.
Debbie Gibson Avis? That’s downright cruel.
Hooray! Another earworm for today!
I apologized!!!
*GentleSqueeze*
I wake up with one every morning, Avis. I think it’s basically incurable at this point.
I have been extremely nice and not shared the earworm I woke up with today. I still haven’t figured out how I even got it in the first place!
And *squeezies all around*.
For the past week now, I’ve had a worm about the world’s least dangerous dance ever by some uncapped fellows.
And it’s no friend of mine.
I must have suppressed this one pretty well.
Robitussin®. It works.
No, my batch of meth didn’t turn out at all! What’s your secret?
*Robotrips*
*does the robot*
“Danger, Will Robinson!”
@Dilly:

My good lady, I hardly know you!
However, dinner helps this kind of thing along
I was told the best thing about doing robots is they don’t need expensive dinners!
*cancels OKrobot.com account*
*signs up for plentyofrobots.com instead*
Just make sure the robot you do is over 18.
What is with all these rules??
*angrily cancels Match.robot*
*places stamp on forehead*
I guess this is goodbye, then.
Your refund check is in the mail and we hope you may choose us for your robot needs again someday.
*closes self in shipment box and shuts down*
Oh, reactivate yourself, goofball. I’ll make Sterno and bolts and we can play RoBoggle
oops, was I fondeling you in my sleep again, Leila?
Did you name it Tiger Woods?
*hides lucky rabbit’s foot*
It cant be too lucky, it wasnt for the rabbit.
Fur is evil!
Fur sure sista. Fur sure!!!
Fur isn’t evil. Stealing fur from the fuzzies that originally owned it is evil.
I say it’s evil, hooray.
*stamps foot*
*folds arms across chest*
*sticks tongue out at 3Bs*
Is that what gives our cheezpeep friends their wicked sense of humo(u)r?
It sure makes my kitties naughty.
*takes a little hair of the dog*
*squeeze*
As long as he’s not nekkid.
Gracie! You changed your cape to a purdy orange-red! Very nice.
I couldn’t have said it better myself, except I might have thrown the word “anthropomorphize” around.
I saw what you did there.
My only problem with fur is that so often it’s worn in stupid ways. If a person claims they wear it for warmth, the fur should be on the INSIDE.
I ‘spose I’m a hypocrit for liking/wearing leather, but that’s where I draw the line. NO FUR! You want warmth, put on a sweater.
While I’m inclined to agree with you, there are some REALLY cold places. And there have been times (usually in February) when I have wished for a fur-lined coat! And yes, I was wearing sweaterS.
The synthetic variety is just as warm.
But made of plastic, which is made of non-renewable resources.
I’m with Scott on this one. If I’d consider eating it, I’ll consider wearing it.
That’s why I wear leather. I eat meat, and the leather I typically buy comes from those animals, like sheep and cow.
And killing the animal for the fur makes it renewable? Maybe if you let it breed first…
I wear cotton because it breeds so well.
But wool only makes sheep naked, and they can grow more.
Yes, animals are a renewable resource. Precisely because they can be bred. Now, I’m NOT ok with “fur-farms”, but I don’t think it’s the end of the world if someone decides to wear fur.
*uses all available shiny duct tape around mouth*
VERY few farms are run in a sustainable manner.
Beg your pardon, AA, but “very few”?? Depends on how you look at it. Of if you own a farm… like I do.
AA, I know, I know. I wish more were.
I lived in Russia for a year, and saw many a fur hat for the freezing winters….
I wear leather too LGB. My rule is if I’m willing to eat it, I’m willing to wear it.
…which is why I don’t wear veal.
Hmm I have never worn a man before.
If I listen to Scott, I should wear w…never mind.
I thought the expression was “You are what you eat,” not “you wear what you eat!” I must be wearing a lot of coffee and chocolate today if that’s the case.
Hmmm… that’s not exactly what we mean by that…
*birdysqueeze*
*squeeze*
In russia, the man wears you!
(sorry, couldn’t resist)
I totally wear veal, each and every day. do you like my veal hat? ….it is beginig to putrify a bit…
Sure do miss you sometimes.
My dad told me he used to wear a long Beaver coat when he went to school.
My respect for my dad has just risen immensely. How much beaver do you have to eat to get a full length coat?
Now I see what he meant by, “If you want a girl to give you her number, just lick your eyebrows!”…
Keep the feet and dump the fur.
Leave the gun, take the cannoli.
Leave the cone, eat the gelato.
Leave the cracker, eat the cheese.
Leave the cereal, drink the milk.
Leave the ash, smoke the green
Leave the skull, eat the braaaaaaiiinnnssss.
Oh, sorry.
and that’s why we love you ZA….
Yes it is evil! Which is why we should get it off of those poor defenseless little animals!
*THWACK*
*admires LGB’s thwacking skills*
Does that take a lot of practice? Or is it something anyone could pick up easily?
Pick a puck of sixpence
put him in a pie
take the furry rat back
and stick it in his eye!
Hey I know you can be enthusiastic about the Christmas season (although it’s kind of childish), but to say “Firs” makes no sense in the context of a hockey topic.
*decorates the firs with cranberries and popcorn*
mmm… that looks good…. I haven’t had lunch yet..
*nibbles on the decorations*
*adds shiny tinsel to the firs*
*steals the shiny tinsel*
*adds shiny bells*
*makes sure lcb hears and sees them*
I can hear them but for some reason I’m having trouble seeing.
Well, they’re shiny, I promise.
’tis the season for giving NOT the season for taking away the shinies.
*echo* Leave the dark side lcb. Leave it. *echo*
*hopes to convert lcb*
“Dark”? How can I be on the dark side with all these lights?
*flicks switch*
*strings of lights spring to colorful life*
It helps if you turn them on.
>ZAP!<
AAAUUUGGGGHHH!
I…I “DOT ORG”-ed her!!
*sobs*
Worry not for LCB, for the lights were low-power LED.
I wondered why her ears were glowing…
glowing, or burning???
I figured her nose was glowing because she dipped into the eggnog, but now we know better.
Looking very festive LCB and Skwirrlgrl.
why thank you!
I love dressing up for the holidays!
Or just dressing. I still have some left over from last week…
Very nice, skwirrlgrl and LCB. And very slimming!
ROFL!!!
I guess they all really wanted his stick!!
Isn’t that the truth.
*adds 2 new nerf balls to Jules’ collection and a nice stick*
How do you expect the man/dog to walk with so many nerf balls between the legs?
He didn’t say they were big balls. That was ACDC
Pssst…. “She”.
I thought Jules was a dude. He has the shiny ♂ symbol. He’s the one that speaks of balls first. Even if the added ones were large, the originals could be itty-bitty.
Sorry Jules, not trying to cast aspersions.
And, Sorry Abstract.
I didn’t see your femaleness there. My bad.
Jules IS one with dangly things. Are you guys trying to confuse me?
Jules is the dude, Abstract is a dudette.
I’m thinking I’m the one who misunderstood something back there.
Oh thank goodness! Thank you for keeping me sane.
…Keeping?? That implies you were sane in the first place.
*runsawaywithaquickness*
ROFL!!!!
It’s sad but very true DW.
Mrs. Starfish always tells me I’m making her crazy and I always remind her that she was crazy when I found her and I’m just setting her off.
You need to remind her that you were born the way you were, she CHOSE to be with you. Who’s the crazy one? You had no choice
Presactly!
I don’t understand why “crazy” has gotten such a bad name. I mean, there are different kinds of crazy. There’s the, I want to rule the world and I’ll use these shiny exploding thingy’s to get my way, crazy. Then you have the, I’m bored, I think I’ll bark at people in the supermarket to entertain myself, crazy. Being in the barking mad group, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with crazy.
*cues up some Gnarls Barkley*
Don’t drive yourself crazy trying to keep from going crazy. Save your sanity for sometime when you actually need it.
Sanity is over-rated.
He walked (skated) with a big stick.
But did he do so softly?
♪♫Killing me softly with his song…♪♫
Might not be the best choice to perform for a school talent show, BFF.
Sorry, I read too much. It’s from the book “About a Boy”. It was also made into a movie. The movie (of course) was nowhere near as good as the book.
Movies are never as good as the book. Never. It used to make me crazy. I’m a big reader. About a novel a day. There are movies out there that others love, but having read the book, they just make me hostile.
*pant* *pant*
*looks down and sees personal soapbox*
*steps down from soapbox*
Sorry. I get a little heated on that topic.
no one cares
*THWACKS that guy with the shellacked mackerel*
You were too easy on him.
*flattens that guy with tank*
*incinerates the little bugger with a flamethrower*
*scoops remains in jar labelled “FOR ZA”*
There.
*hurlsselfintohugwithAvisandLeila*
Love you guys.
I didn’t say where I thwacked him!
Aw!! You got it BbB.
*squeeze*
You don’t have to Avis. I !magined it and had a good giggle.
Was it in a place similar to yesterday’s fail?
Why yes, yes it was!
Dang. I missed the fun. BFF had to break out the flamethrower!
*eyes mess dubiously*
Cleanup on aisle five!
*finds jar*
*opens jar*
*winces*
*prefers his morsels raw, not burnt to a crisp*
*eyes isle 5 …*
About your opinion, yes.
*snugglesintoGBFcuddle*
Love you too.
Back to your topic BBB. There are a very
small amount of movies I liked better than the book. Bram Stoker’s Dracula being one of them.
I liked the ending of the movie version of The Firm better than that of the books. I guess that’s two.
Grisham writes like he has a screenplay in mind anyway, so that’s not really very surprising.
I look at movie adaptations as a completely separate entity from the books they came from. Different talents, different visions, different focus, different perspectives. I think an adaptation could be just as valuable as the original text, just so long as you don’t expect it to be the “same”.
For example, I thought “The Green Mile” worked absolutely beautifully as a movie, and the movie said more interesting things than King did in his story.
Red October was the first book I saw in movie form that stayed close to the book. The Bourne books are not even close to the originals except in names and a couple of details.
I loved the Bourne movies and was thinking of reading the books but someone told me they books weren’t all that great.
*paints over the ‘y’ with correction fluid*
The books are good, but they have very little in common with the movies. I know movies are supposed to be good but I can’t get past the fact that they are so different from the books. I am cranky when it comes to veering off so drastically from a book, like the ending of Da Vinci Code.
I agree with Dragon, I try to separate the mediums. But sometimes things just don’t work as well when “adapted”. I’m fine if I can enjoy both separately. Like The Color Purple. Both are great in my opinion.
I got very cranky when they killed Marie in the beginning of the 2nd Bourne movie. She’s the one that kept him sane through all the books! Grrrr!
Adaptation theory actually addresses these problems. The directors and screenwriters really can’t win. They get criticized if they away from the original too much…and they get criticized if they are slavishly faithful to the text (no creative contribution, etc).
The fact that so many adaptations are being made just reinforces my suspicion that directors and screenwriters are masochists.
*snork*
I accidenty my action verb. What should I do??
I understand the need to vary some. Aside from needing a much longer movie just to accommodate a book, you do have to give some license. But the mess they made from the Bourne books is ridiculous. There is an underlying story that is completely ignored. And sadly, people who have only watched the movies are very disappointed when they read the books and then get upset that the books aren’t like the movies. WHA?
I know Clancy has been belittled before as an author, but I’m a big fan of the Tom Clancy book series following Jack Ryan (at least I think that’s the Red October Ryannon is referring to). I don’t usually have a problem when books and movies diverge… I do have a problem when movies do something to defy common sense and physics (like in the movie The Sum of All Fears with Ben Afleck where he was running around town shortly after the city became ground zero for a nuclear explosion… and he’s dead inside a year due to radiation poisoning!)
I try my best to separate them in my mind as well. Usually I’m successful. There’s only a few that have gotten under my skin.
I think the first and worst of them, for me, was Misery. I was so angry at the movie that I couldn’t stop hissing in the theatre while I was trying to watch it.
*I love you people!*
Scotty, that happened to me with the second Lord of the Rings movie. I was sitting in the movie theater and I may have actually shouted, “FARAMIR WOULDN’T HAVE DONE THAT!!!”
ROFL! Hi
Hello, and where have you been all this time?
stinky work has us under 24 he surveilance…
I swear, this GibberishTranslator™ was the worst investment ever.
DragonSpeak at Staples… for $30… 4th version I’ve owned. Great product. Translates my gibberish into better gibberish.
But…but…Dragon doesn’t speak in gibberish!
She speaks as if she’s ejumacated…or something.
To the unejumacated, it would sound like gibberish. Or maybe elvish.
A Elbereth Gilthoniel
silivren penna míriel…
Well, expounding upon the discourse of exegetical hermeneutics and pedagogy does tend to render one adroit at linguistic calisthenics. I mean, employing ekphrasis to things like synecdoche all day enervates the soul, so I come here to resuscitate my flagging humours with people who understand me.
*applies leeches and a jar to dubs to balance the phlegm and the black bile*
I feel more sanguine already!
At least it works better than Babelfish.
But it doesn’t make me panic as badly.
Welcome back, Abstract!
*squeeze*
*squueze* got to run!!! love you all
Hey Abstract!! Nice to see you.
*squeeze* hi !!! i miss you guys!
*nicetoseeyousqueezeabstract*
*squeeze* got to run, but great to see everyone!!
Jamie’s Got a Gun is worse.
GIMME! It’s mine!
No! It’s MINE!!
Argh! A MINE!!
*explodes*
*blowswhistle*
That’s it!! In the box! I’m taking the stick and putting it up in the closet and none of you will get to play with it now.
*pouts*
But it’s miiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnne!!
*mimes getting thwacked by a stick*
(while in a box)
Well Avis, now it’s the closets!!
*get’s Noxema to clean white face make-up off of Nocon*
*sits in a closet for no reason. Sees 3B put a stick in the closet. Teeth feel itchy*
*sticks tongue out at Avis*
*stamps foot*
*puts finger one inch from Avis’ arm*
Not tounching you!
Not tounching you!
It’s a good thing we’re not driving cuz we would be heading right back home!
That’s it!!! I will turn this strand around!!
Um…. how?
Um……….by making my monitor face the wall?
*hatehavingmybluffcalledpout*
*snork*
*squeezies*
Wow! Even monitors have a naughty corner now. I love it!!!!
My four-year-old called my bluff the other day. That sucks.
Never bluff with a four year old!! I’m pretty sure they will always call it.
That’s how I lost all my Pogs. Poker.
But this bluff has worked perfectly for months! And now all of a sudden he changes on me!
*pouts*
I only net bluff.
Well, H – E – Double hockey sticks!
Fanatics? More like lunatics.
Is that Chris Nilan choking the guy in the blue? Guess Chris ran out of sticks to throw onto the ice. …
One of the guys fighting actually was Mike Vallely, of skateboarding and beating-the-shit-out-of-people fame. ‘Twas pretty brutal to watch from 3 sections away.
they’re fighting over your stick scott!! what a lucky man
Yes, all of the ladies of Failblog fight over Scott’s great stick…
Whoop!
From the looks of it, the men were too.
I’ve never seen Scott’s stick. Is it worth fighting over. Can I see it?
Don’t go there.
You’d better believe it.
This one time, I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.
The puck you say?
Nah he took the goalies fist.
*Climbs out of grave, grabs jimmity bites his head off, blah blah blah blah blah.*
* realises the reson he is a zombie is because he has no life*
ZA you gotta keep better watch over your minions!!
*grabshandsanitizer*
ZA wannabe?
*checks list*
*checks twice*
Nope, not one of mine. I don’t think … maybe if I summon the hoard, you can help me check? It’s a little over 10 million currently.
… get the puck outta heah.
How long did that realization take, Einstein?
I'm guessing it took a no lifetime.Thou speak’st aright; I am that merry wanderer of the night.
For night’s swift dragons cut the clouds full fast.
What dolts you short lifers are bein’.
Or
What fools these mortals be.
Not sure which I like better.
Did you just say that Dragon cut one….?!?!
This can’t be good!
*runsawaywithaquickness*
Can’t pin this one on the Canadians. This happened right here in SoCal.
*sigh*
Can’t pin your problems on us, eh?
Maybe you should start taking responsibility for yourselves, eh?
blame canada
Maybe the players were originally from Canada, eh?
’twasn’t the players fighting. It was the fans.
Yes, but it was YOUR national sport.
And their national bird is the hockey puck?
I have to admit, it’s not as bad as a frisbee.
Akshully iz lakross but just a teknicalitee. evrbuddy laiks hokee beter.
Stop it. kthanxbai.
For the record — not one of “ours.”
Thanks NS. I think most of us assume that’s the case now.
What is canada?
I have no idea. There’s also this thing called “Europe”, but I haven’t a clue what it is or what colo(u)r it is.
Hmmm…if only there was a way to do a quick and easy search to find more information about them. I just don’t feel like going to the library right now. *sigh*
*pulls out knife for whittling*
Wheeaaeell, (pauses to spit) I went to Europe once. They had people with their own languages and hairy armpits. The colors were mostly grey and tan. Rained a lot if I recall correctly.
*shows whittled figures of Eifel Tower and Big Ben*
*looks up from cross stitch hoop*
*adjusts spectacles*
*cups ear with hand*
EH? What’s that you young whippersnappers are talking about?
*skips by licking a lolly*
Is that what you youngsters are calling it these days?!
*thwacks Avis with her cane*
Stop putting idears in their heads!
OW!
*hastily gets off everyone’s lawn*
*spits again*
HWWAAAAAAACHHHHKTUI
TURN DOWN THAT DANGED MUSIC!
*pulls up pants*
*holds newspaper at arms-length and squints*
*dozes off watching the Weather Channel at maximum volume*
*makes cranberry-apple juice and goes to channel surf in the hopes Futurama is on*
We’ve apparently moved from “nothing but driving fails” to “nothing but sports fails” in the 10am pst time slot. Hmmmm.
What happens in this fail?
*shakes fist at the work-powers-that-be for having these things blocked*
Niedermeyer skates over to the stands and passes in his hockey stick. The fans then proceed to fight over who gets to keep it. One guy gets poked quite hard in the neck with it.
Theng-kew!
The really classy part is the one guy throwing punches at women.
If he does it in public, he no doubt does it in private, too.
Now you just gave me a sad.
Maybe this will help.
*Giant Ms B Ska-weeeeze*
Awww! Thanky!
*SQUEEEEEEEEZE!*
That would be classy with a “K”.
It can be really sad how violent fans can get at a sports game.
Was there blood?
Did he ???
There will be dye.Hey guys! Check out this cool shirt!
QwaztesianPositively Qwaz-tastic! Love it!
No count ‘em unless the guy in blue bleeds?
I know!
*pouts*
I’ll… keep that in mind.
Just remember that you lick first, then stick it.
That was your solution? That was the thought that popped into your head in that situation?
I read that as “pooped”.
I am sorry.
No apoligies necessary. pooped works as well as popped.
As long as the problem is constipation. Or as the Germans say, Farfrompoopen.
You would need something more substantial than just a finger in this case.
Not……………..*gasp*…………..the E.T. finger?!!
*fleeswithaquickness*
^Destined to power a fail.
If only temporarily.
Dam!!!
Farfrompoopen.
*RIGLMAO*
Great, now I shall also suffer from that malady. Thanks Cloral.
Stick it to the man!!!!
It looks like a sticky situation.
Hope none of them will be stuck in jail.
I am sure you do since you have some weird fetish about the butt.
You need some serious help.
It stopped being funny like in 1st grade.
Hey Leila, I just heard there’s cake in the break room!
And a message has been sent DIRECTLY to a PTB.
Bless you, my little feathered friend!
Let’s hope I got the addy correct!
Looks like you got the addy right
Must’ve. The blog is borked.
Yes… resistance is futile.
So is posting any further comments until the nesting stops looking like a bad mullet twiddled like rasta-hair.
Oh, you mean, like this morning’s fail?
yes.
under which the video spammer posted the same darned thing 8 – 10 times.
I think you’re right.
Everytime I pop in for a visit I get banned. You guys are far to uptight. I know how I can relieve your tension.
I may not be particularly funny, but you should not confuse that with being uptight. Might help if you stop looking in the mirror.
That was Daddy?
Who are you talking to, Leila?
Supposedly me, but I logged off of FAILBlog before she made those comments
(Which I find inappropriate… I’m not in a humorous mood right now.)
It wasn’t to you Connor. There was a troll whose posts have since been deleted.
Ah. That clears things up.
*is happy and nonconfused*
*thinks that I seem to be confused a lot lately*
*shrugs it off*
Aw, look, Scotty’s all purtied up for Christmas!
*sigh* Leave my comments alone Blogmonster!!!!
Thanks Judy
Someone once told me (probably here on FB) that it also cures the hiccups.
I think I am going to lose the lunch I haven’t had yet.
*shudders*
*clenches sphincter*
*provides shiny duct tape to all interested Failpeeps*
*offers used (red) wine corks in exchange for some duct tape*
*pulls and farts*
Ladies do that?
Apparently.
That would have been here. We find all sorts of weird trivia here.
Hey Avis, is it snowing in the city?
Flurries. Nothing but pretty ineffectual flurries. For which I am thankful. I do not really want a blizzard.
Avis!
HEY!! How are you!! WHERE have you BEEN!?!
Whoa! Blast from the past!
When I lived in Buffalo we called that Special Effects snow.
Pretty much the same here. I love it when it snows, for the first couple of times.
Yeah, then it turns to grey slush and/or black ice. Not so much fun then.
I am wondering if anyone is collecting them. Would make us some good internetz if published.
*kicks self for throwing out the idea*
I’ve got 2 Instigator, 1 Aggressor, 4 Holding the Stick, 5 Roughing, 2 Fighting, ahhh, heck with it Game Misconduct for all of you. Everyone’s ejected!
I object!!! It’s 2 turtle doves!!!!! Where did you learn your Christmas carols?
*checks the songbook he’s holding*
*Reads “The Big Book of Hockey Christmas Carols”*
Woops, I brought the wrong book.
Does this mean I won’t get any figgy pudding?
If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding!
How can they have meat when they don’t have any teeth?
*hides behind the bikesheds*
They no need ‘em teeth if all they are intend to do is suck on the meat.
* quickly hides the “are” whilst no one is watching… *
Piggy pudding?!
There’s always room for H1N1!
*cough*
*sniffle*
No room at my house! It’s already been filled!
Not bad–only two WEEKS late to find this clip and post it.
Timeliness FAIL.
I went to the future and found out you’re ill. Isn’t that fascinating?
Gravely ill, the end is nigh eve.
*gently and kindly informs Informed’s loved ones of the bad news*
*starts planning services for the nearly departed*
*begins preparations for the recruitment campaign*
*or not*
Well I’m not sure if this was mentioned, but what happened was Scott gave his stick to a young girl in the crowd and the fat guy in the blue tried to steal it from her. Then, all hell broke loose and they started pummeling him.
My version is that he offered her the stick so she can beat the living daylights out of the dude.
Scottie is the best. Him and Stevie Y are two of my all time fav hockey players but Scottie’s brother needed a personality.
Did he play hockey to get that personality beat into him?
If I had had a boy, I wanted to name him Brendan after Brendan Shanahan. I really wanted a girl, though — and that’s what I got!
Then did you name her Sidney?
Nope – named her after the lead-singer of a one-hit-wonder from the 80s.
♫ Walking on Sunshine ♫
Well — not so much “named her after,” but that’s where I first heard the name & I really liked it a lot. Then they had to go and name a major hurricane after my child.
Awww, Katrina is a lovely name. I’m sure not many people will use it after the hurricane though.
… at least not in New Orleans. She perks up every time they’re talking about the storm on television. “They just said Katrina – Hurricane Katrina! That’s me!”
Mmmm Brendan Shanahan. Other sports athletes need to learn from hockey players and start being hot all the time. Hockey players are yum.
My mom’s favorite song
If I were a little younger, I’d have been a hurricane, too…
There was a hit in the 80′s?
*THWACK*
That would be a hit in 09.
*snerk*
oh hush…
that was a nice, upbeat tune. and she’s kinda cute, too.
I am now going to shock everyone.
I have no idea who Brendan Shanahan is, nor an inkling of the song.
If any are hyperventilating from the news that I, yes I, don’t know this; I recommend the use of a paper bag.
More like a two-hit wonder. Katrina also won the Eurovision Song Contest. That’s in Europe, wherever that is.
I love it when the players do something nice, and greedy people ruin the moment. =/
This is clearly hockey at its best!
[who was the comedian who said, "I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out!" ?] was it dangerfield?
Nope. It was our sweet, little zombie that we don’t get to see near enough of. Up there. ^^^^^
You’re right LGB. He first told that joke way back when he was alive.
Like your Christmas hat, Scotty! Dint see that before the PTB fixed the blog…
Thankee! It wasn’t up until then anyway.
I was inspired by LCB and SkwrrlGrl. When this turned up in Google it was too good to pass.
So…so was Casual Stan…*cries*
I’m going to laugh about that all season long.
you do look dashing in the Santa hat Scott!
♪Deck the Peeps with boughs of holly♫
*festive squeezes*
Very nice Gracie.
*Holiday squeeze*
Aww. You know how to make a zombie
feel awkwardfeel weirdfeel something…… smile.
If it weren’t for dumb people doing dumb things with machines they didn’t understand, I’d be here a lot more. Of course, I’d also be unemployed – which is admittedly a more natural state for the undead. But then I wouldn’t have the means to be here anymore …
*starts to get all confused again*
You are correct. It was Dangerfield.
Is it just me, or does his last name by itself sound like an action star?
No… Yes… Wait…
Happy Thyrozine Thursday, Cloral!
Sigh. Every day this week has felt like it should be Friday. I don’t know why.
At least tomorrow will actually be Friday.
Oh, sh!t! It’s Thursday!
*runs to restroom*
*returns, twirling panties on finger*
All better now.
*feels a little breeze*
Thank you?
I love how that dude’s girlfriend with the blonde ponytail jumps right in and starts swinging too. Whatta gal.
That’s what’s great about dating Puerto Rican women. Someone tries to jump you, she will hand you her purse and kick his @ss for you.
One time…at bandcamp.
*quickly hides Ry’s flute behind couch*
If you’re a hockey fan, this is a win…
Except Ducks fans are not real hockey fans.
I like Butter’s version better.
Rut-roh. Looks like someone responded to his/her own moderated comment. It’s madness, I tell you — MADNESS!
Nope, I think someone’s comments disappeared!
I think some comments are in the process of being erased at the moment. Hang on…it will be a bumpy ride for a little while!
Yay – order seems to have been restored. Just in time for me to go to lunch, even!
Never mind. The bottom of the thread is still in a state of chaos.
*sighs contentedly*
THANK YOU PTB!!!!!!
Looks like PTB have removed him once again. I wonder if he has ever been to Louisiana.
*snork*
You say that about every troll.
Not all of them, just the sicker ones.
Did I miss anything…um…interesting?
Interesting? Not really.
Looks like Mountaintop Table will not be deterred. Now he is Jamie and i deaf man
Another message to the PTB?
Yes, I believe so. Don’t bother clicking on the videos, but just know they are about the same topic with which he is obsessed.
Ok, I’ll be back in a few then. Off to hotmail.
dang… I miss all the fun.
Tell me that didn’t really happen that fast.
She must have seen it before I sent off the message!
Maybe she is hanging around and reading the posts and secretly wishing she was as cool as we are. bwahahah or secretly wishing we were as cool as her.
I’m gonna go with the latter of those two.
I dunno. You haven’t seen me dance.
Im guessing she hasn’t either. :p
*slips in the apostrophe where it belongs*
*hopes no one noticed*
*wiggledances*
You’ve all seen me dance!
With me!
*wiggledances with Ms B*
*takes a picture for Emily*
In case she hasn’t seen you guys.
I’m betting she doesn’t want to be as cool as I am.
Great, someone broke the blog. Big time. I’m looking at you, TM. Don’t make me break out the hoard, they’re just now beginning to forget why they were mad at me.
The blog will go back to normal, it just takes a bit of time. TPB are working on it.
The real FAIL is that FSU still got gained yards on that play.
…and now, with the original post deleted, all these responses make no sense.
I like the idea that people will run across my Butter’s comment above and have no idea what it’s about, trying to make it fit the fail instead of the deleted comment. Chaos rules.
I feel…so…disconnected…
Someone nest me please.
*attempts to nest*
It worked!
*thankyousqueezes*
Um…Let’s never go VV there!!! It’s very scary.
I can probably agree to that. Of course, that’s largely because I have to go now, toodles everyone!
*waves*
Bye Avis.
It’s like some hockey player threw a stick to the comments down there.
It looks like maybe they threw more than just a stick to me.
Look at you all dressed up for Christmas and stuff!
Shucks, you guys are going to make me blush.
*squeeze*
all you guys trash talking, nobody talks about the video, that´s suks
What video?
Trash talking??? I am offended!!!! We are more like hornychat roleplaying type of people.
I thought it was hornyplay polechat.
Wow, from the looks of these displaced comments, it looks like I missed one helluva spammer. What happened?
Same story, different day. Troll shows up, regulars play with it and/or give it the benefit of doubt. Troll shows true nature, gets banned, comments fly everywhere and land at the bottom of the page.
My casket has been leaking a little recently, so there’s water damage everywhere. But I found this piece of paper with signatures all over it and I can’t make out what’s on the top of the page. The only word I can make out is “troll”. Anyone have any idea what this was?
The amish have a phrase for it, ZA: road apple. A steaming pile of road apple.
I gotta split all. I’m really looking forward to cuddle puddle tomorrow. I need it like nobody’s business.
Also, just wanted to let you guys know, I might have flipped out if I didn’t have you all here to bring a little joy. It’s been a super rough week, and you all have kept me from crying in my cubicle.
Thanks.
*BIGFATSLOPPYFAILPEEPHUGANDSQUEEZETOALL*
*squeeze*
We’ve all been there, sweetie. The people here are crazy, and strangly enough keep me from going crazy.
*loans Ms B an ‘e’*
Who are you calling crazy missy?
I resemble that remark!
Being crazy has it’s advantages. You get to wear those neat jackets with the arms that tie around the back so you’re always giving yourself a nice tight squeeze and you get a padded room so
facedeskfacewalls don’t hurt so much.Oh wait, that’s not being crazy, that’s being committed. But being crazy is kinda nice too.
damned strait*GINORMOUSSQUEEZE*
*SUPERSqueeeze*
*special5tentaclesqueeze*
*SQUEEZE!!!*
*GREATBIGFAILPEEPCOMFORTSQUEEZE!!*
More like a product of LA area trash.
First
Rats!
Gerbils?
Chipmunks?
Bats.
I like how the camera displayed all those fans… those Grinches stealing the hockey stick intended for the little girl. Nothing like a public showing of those greedy grinches to ruin their day. And forget eBaying that stick, the seller would get eaten alive by angry bidders.
Okay this seriously made me angry when I first saw this a while back. Talk about a low moment in your life.
Just let ‘em have the stick pops.
Well done, hockey fans.
You are as pointlessly violent as your sport. *Applauds*
Qwaz, I like you alot, but I have to take exception, and it has nothing to do with your opinion of Hockey. (though I don’t agree with you)
First of all I’ll thank you not to let these idiots define all hockey fans. Second, all major sports have fans like this, and drunken idiots can be found just about everywhere.
I was in London the year England’s football team played Portugal in the World Cup.
*shudders at the memory of the rabid fans*
I was SO FREAKING HAPPY the Phillies didn’t win the World Series AGAIN this year. It was so nice not to have the entire city screaming and on fire. The police actually greased the telephone poles this year during the playoffs so people couldn’t climb them, fall off, and die.
Personally, I’m bored with rabid MAJOR sport fans. You know what I’d love to see? Rabid, drunken golf fans. Or gymnastics fans. That would be so fun to watch. =D
You mean like Tiger Woods?
*rimshot*
*snork* Yeah, exactly. XD
Ahh, hockey. Figure skating dunked in testosterone. Where would our society be without it?
…And how is everyone on this fine day at this fine blog?
Ah, curse my damned typos. Entered my email wrong, so no gravatar for me!
You accidenty your noun, so I can’t tell…is your avatar perhaps two fingers pinching a fox’s nose?
My avatar’s pretty much my rendition of the furry “teehee face” avatar meme, with my fursona, Stickers the Husky dog. You’d find scores of examples of said teeheeface meme on FurAffinity, were the blasted site not going through a technical funk.
Everything about Hockey is a FAIL
is not.
So true
That’s a 5 minute major for fighting and a game misconduct!
Time for me to run along home. Good night, Failpeeps!
I see that someone took an eggbeater to the comments section again.
˙uıɐƃɐ uoıʇɔǝs sʇuǝɯɯoɔ ǝɥʇ oʇ ɹǝʇɐǝqƃƃǝ uɐ ʞooʇ ǝuoǝɯos ʇɐɥʇ ǝǝs ı
I would fight for that stick, its probably pretty decent if its a pro’s stick, they can cost a bit new.
This is precisely why I love hockey. Fighting.
hockey fans in a fight, really? isn’t there supposed to be some element of the unusual in these things? what’s the next fail, cops beating on people of color?
Lol, look at these idiots….. typical diehard sportsfans.
Typical ducks fans
They are a load of crap. A shame to the great sport of hockey…
Hockey is so hockey
Hey, your mom was really going for it there
They cut out the best part in this video. The hockey stick was meant for a little girl who was sitting in the stands.
Poor guy in the blue shirt. First he got hit in the face by the hockey stick and then 3 people attack him at the same time for no appearent reason
Deserved. Karma. Stole from a young child.
The Ducks are a fail and so are their so called “fans.” I hate them. They are not real hockey fans. The Ducks and their fans are a disgrace to hockey. Bunch of bloody whiners and cheaters.
Typical Americans…
that one guy shoved the stick at the guys face then headlocked him. wtf
anyone would fight the guy
i hope they all went to jail and the stick was sold at police auction! guy in blue is a loser because it clearly was not meant for him, and the rest of ‘em are too for totally going way too far. keep the fighting on the ice!
the dude that started the fight is a professional skateboarder.
stick was tossed to his daughter and another guy below him grabbed it away.
mike vallely is his name, he has a reputation for getting into fights.
I see this every week on TV. How do I? I live in France.
Mike Vallely strikes again!
Experts have talked about this before. How many times have you read about the importance of ‘adding value’ for your audience? How many times have you read about ‘building trust’ with your readers/prospects?
Many, many times. You know it well. Every marketing guru has spoken about this topic. I’m sick of hearing it. But it STILL bears repeating.
onlineuniversalwork
When the mob rules..
When the mob rules…
in America stick fights you
I went to a brothel once… And a hockey game broke out.